I've got a week off until exams, so I closed up commissions and strapped on the big guns to attempt a large pixel piece. Success? That's for you to decide. Technically, I broke a few rules of pixel art to bring you that sexy overlay lighting Totally worth it though. It was looking a bit flat before that, and it was the part I was looking forward to the most.

This piece came about because I needed some large-scale practice before I do the thing my boyfriend keeps bugging me about even though he's not a brony Anyway, I had a thought about how similar these two Princesses are in what they do. It's two parts of the same coin, here represented as them circling each other, ridiculously long manes and tails tangled into each other. Cadence love and Twilight friendship.

The vines are there because they looked a bit bland on their own, but a full-scale background wasn't feasible. My first idea was a kind of mist, but I'm glad I thought a bit more and got the vines. Then it was obvious to add a few roses for love, but what flowers represent friendship? Those yellow flowers, that is! I can't be bothered finding their name right now, I'll give an update on that later.

This baby will probably be my largest for a while. It was at least 15 hours, I believe. Wouldn't surprise me if it was 20+. Pixel art is meticulous. Then I add overlay and ruin half of that meticulous stuff

Lastly, I'd like to thank all of my watchers. 176 of you guys? What did I do to deserve that many? And thank you to all you guys who view, favourite, and read this super-long description!

What can I say? I really love this piece! Candance's pose is wonderful, and her mane and tail is so pretty in this! I also see that the ends of her mane is wrapping around Twi's mane, which is a nice touch.

Might I suggest adding a white border? It might help this piece stand out a bit. Also, people might have pointed this out, but if you ever decide to alter and fix this up you might want to do Twi's face and neck. Her head looks a bit off.

Well,The shadings are super good.I Wouldn't do better of course,it's so much beautiful. the hair shadings are amazing,the cutie mark you can make a little more small,just a liiiiiiiiiiiiiitle bit.but anyway,it is super good. i would not do better anyway.

I liked the colors and all,princess cadence's wings are amazing,and i don't see the bicolored that she have in the wings (it must be because of my PC,he's bugging so much.ah liked the horns,cause of course i love alicorns and all the way,they're super cute ^^ star with good artwork anyway! you are amazing!But anyway it is a super good art.

I usually sketch at approximately double the size to start with. I don't think I did that for this one because it was so large already. 10 or 100x as big would break my computer, the program runs slow if my canvas is much bigger than 3000x3000.